About 55,123 acres of forest in Chattogram, Cox's Bazar and Bandarban are occupied, and 572 forest guards patrol the region's 855,968 acres of woodland.
Trial plantings of baen (Avicennia) mangroves by the NGO CODEC in the Badarkhali channel and Rampura mouza of Chakaria, Cox's Bazar, are surviving well; experts say the near-vanished forest can return only if tidal flow, blocked by shrimp-farm embankments, is restored and three other barriers are re
After the government paid compensation to clear 673 structures from a rebuilt coastal embankment at Kuakata, encroachers are again cutting Forest Department plantings and putting up shops on the slope at night.
In Habiganj's Satchari National Park, named for seven hill streams, four streams no longer exist and the other three barely flow; with the forest ponds filled by sand and silt, officials and experts warn the park's 197 animal species could run short of water in the coming dry season.
Around 900 trees were cut from the protected Tengragiri and Nalbunia forests in Taltali, Barguna, between 12 and 16 September; residents accuse Forest Department staff of shielding the loggers, and the upazila administration has formed a five-member inquiry committee.
Citing the Forest and Tree Conservation Act 2026, the upazila administration in Faridpur's Alfadanga has made prior permission from the divisional forest officer mandatory before cutting trees even on private land, with cases under section 10 for violators, and spent a day announcing the rule by lou
Forest Department and NACOM counts logged more than 32,000 birds in January, a critically endangered spoon-billed sandpiper and a flock of 1,338 Indian skimmers; grazing, hunting and fishing traps threaten the chars, and a ten-year conservation plan has been drawn up.
The 7,085-hectare park was divided into 11 zones and surveyed with camera traps and line transects, turning up clouded leopard, hoolock gibbon and Asian elephant.
Residents say several hundred trees were cut on the hills of Sabajpur tea garden over two months and hauled out by elephant; the estate could show no approval from the Tea Board or the forest department, and 130 stumps were counted.
Detective police found the birds in ten plastic cages in the side box of a bus from Naogaon; the forest department says the hill parakeets come down to maize and chilli fields, where a ring traps them for sale.
A 13-month camera-trap study caught five images of the cat on three cameras, along with Asian elephant, hoolock gibbon and barking deer among 21 other species; 44 per cent of the 7,085-hectare park suits the leopard, but settlements, refugee camps and farm encroachment threaten it.
A case has been filed under the Wildlife (Conservation and Security) Act 2026; the ten surviving animals were released into forest at Alutila.
EnvironmentOn the morning of 28 July 2026 the forest department rescued a python nearly 10 feet long beside a settlement at Char Phulbari in Ulipur, Kurigram, and said it would go to Rangpur Zoo after health checks.
